Posted
by
CmdrTaco
on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @10:44AM
from the celebrate-round-numbers dept.

A great number of people wrote in to note that it's
EPOCH Day 15000, so don't expect the post office to run, and I'm pretty sure the markets will be closed. And presumably your employer gave you a paid vacation day?

And if Slashdot would have accepted my story earlier that I tried posting a few times, you could have joined in on the countdown [day15000.com] and parties. Somehow, I knew that Slashdot would do this. Posting things after the fact.

Nevertheless, we had a pretty good party [day15000.com] in Bloomington last night with around 40 people, DJ, free pizza, cake and so on. We all had fun and it was a good social outing. Maybe someone will post a picture of our Epoch Day 15000 party cake. If I could get my phone out of this funky state its in I could post a video.

Well obviously the Epoch switch delayed processing of your story. Moreover I suspect it also explains why the slashdot's look changed and now seems to be a broken interface, only showing some of the comments.

In addition: if Slashdot had accepted your spelling of "epoch" (including in your sig) instead of using the acronym EPOCH, Slashdot might not have confused our European friends with the reference to the European Program On Climatology And Natural Hazards.

It's also Republic Day here in India too, celebrating them (I'm just visiting from London) finally ratifying their own constitution and throwing off the last of the laws imposed on them by the perfidious British oppressors. Having witnessed the independence of spirit and disdain for tyrannical rules most Indians exhibit on the road first-hand (like, you know, all driving the same way along a carriageway), I'm frankly amazed the Raj lasted longer than a day and a half.

RFC: Is it time to codify Epoch celebration traditions? What should they be?
New Years eve has large parties, kissing someone at Midnight, Champagne, Time-Square, Dropping a large lit ball, Music, College Football Bowl Games,Rose Parade... So what is appropriate for Epoch day? First should major celebrations be a power of ten or a Power of Two? Since they come at less than one per years should the celebrations be bigger and more lavish?
Come on Slashdotters, should we be honoring history? or should we ce